Help me pick my next fish!

Those are the other types of flasher wrasse, and most are fine with a 55+ gallons.
According to Live Aquaria, a yellowfin only needs around 30G.
Live Aquaria is pretty accurate with this.

 

ok, i dont have much experience with wrasses at all just passing down what i hear lol.

 

Actually, it seems like the end of the world when you are trying to get an angel out that nips clams and corals. It's no easy task removing an angel. After exhausting all other means of removing mine, I have on more than one occasion resorted to removing a large majority of rock work. A major pain in a small tank, an even larger pain in a large to medium size tank.

 

This is honestly not the best of advice to give. This hobby shouldnt be about playing craps with the lives of salt water animals. Any animals even including the ones you take back. It's about building a stable and thriving tank, not cross your fingers and hope stuff doesnt eat each other. Fighting, nipping and the multiple acclimating times (your tank, returning to LFS, etc) you subject livesotck to can kill it. Add in alot of people arent rich and operate on a limitted budget so 'see what happens' buys can quickly run a person broke and out of the hobby. Thats why this forum is here for people to make wise informed decisions rather than impluse 'see what happens' buys.

 

I recently had to get a Lamarck Angel out of my 150 because it started going to town on my LPS. I can tell you, it felt like the end of the world until I got that ***** out of there (wasn't easy either).

 

Just a few years ago Live Aquaria said the Carpenter's and McCosker's were fine in a 30 gallon too, that was why I put one in my 38 gallon tank. It wasn't long enough when flashing. Not sure why they recommend a smaller size for a flasher that gets the same size...I'd still want more room for it, personally.